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This year marks a grim anniversary for the African nation of Rwanda. Twenty years ago, extremists from the country’s Hutu ethnic group massacred somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million people in less than four months. Already one of the poorest countries in the world, this period crippled Rwanda’s fragile healthcare system. Scarce basic resources and overwhelming poverty — 45 percent of Rwandans live on less than $1 per day — resulted in countless preventable deaths beyond those caused by the genocide. Dr. Peter Drobac, an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin, felt called to help. After his medical education and

Two thousand students attend the Kabwende Primary Center in Kinigi, Rwanda, where they study reading and math in English, rather than in French or Kinyarwanda, the country’s other official languages. Yet when Indiana University students first visited the school in 2009, one year after its switch to an English-based education, not one Rwandan child had an English-written book to call their own. Not one. Beyond that, the school did not have enough textbooks for each of its students, who are between the ages of 5 and 17, so each book was shared among four children and then locked up at